Positive Investment

In addition to “negative screens,” BBT offers a Community Development Investment Fund through which organizations put their resources to work funding affordable housing, micro-lending, and community development efforts. Invested funds are lent through local organizations to borrowers in economically disadvantaged circumstances within the United States and internationally.

At the end of 2015, Brethren Benefit Trust clients had more than $1.3 million of their assets invested in Calvert Foundation Community Development Investment Fund notes. During the year, these assets helped build or reconstruct affordable housing units; fund new microcredit enterprises; finance three not-for-profit, cooperative, or socially innovative projects; and create new jobs.